If you think you have ever felt true fear, you havent tried Gentoo yet
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I'm talking about the Linux ecosystem as a whole. You can always only get a few good things, but no distro ticks literally all possible boxes. Mint is really close, yet they decided to embrace the objectively worse .deb package system over Flatpaks and still got no proper disaster recovery like OpenSuse does (something that should be an imperative especially for "beginner" distros). Or as another example, Gnome devs acticely decided against overhauling their extension system in favour of more stable solutions that'd allow extensions to gracefully crash instead of crashing your whole desktop. No, apparently monkey-patching is totally fine because (I assume) radical developer freedom is better than stability for millions of people. I'm so fed up with people who'll then proceed to defend what they rightfully love and tell me it was easy to get out of that! People just gotta learn to use the CLI, lol! π« That's what I criticize.
Oh yeah, I see what you mean better, I think there is a good trend nowadays though, for example what do you say is missing from openSUSE to make it tick all boxes for you?
I concur there's a good trend, unfortunately it still takes some time to get there. About OpenSuse, to get the stuff out of the way they're currently working on:
That's definitely good. Their default website for the preinstalled browser also includes all the community links as well as a search, leading people to stuff like the Forum which is indeed very friendly (definitely not hostile like f.e. the Arch forum). They also tick a lot of boxes basically no one else does with the bootable system snapshots and (almost) full graphical system management with their YaST2 Suite (because nobody should be forced to manipulate god damn system config files with a command-line editor!). My main gripes with OpenSuse are:
This leaves new users with either no (Gnome) or a lackluster (KDE) amount of Software in the store. The concept of adding more software sources isn't generally known, and new people have no clue what to look for. When using KDE they'd just assume there's very little Software available in general.
It's literally just a bunch of links. While one of the links leads to Documentation (as well as a Readme, but that thing is tiny), the docs are already extremely advanced and go into system details most people will have never heard of or will ever need. Examples of how to do this well do exist, like in Mint or Zorin.
By default OpenSuse tries to save 10 snapshots per day, another 10 per month, 10 per year⦠it's flooding your disk with snapshots eventually, and that you still can only change in a config file!
It's a necessity to know 'sudo zypper dup' since the Software Store more often than not fails to install system updates for some reason (especially with the Nvidia driver installed)
While OpenSuse did a great job with reliable Nvidia driver packages, the manual install is still really bad. Distros like Pop!_OS solved this with a dedicated image, however OpenSuse got excellent installers that could auto-detect the necessity for the driver and/or offer it as an option.
Those are things that come to mind. There technically is lots of more stuff, but those wouldn't be a distro- but more of KDE / GNOME problems (especially around stability). I really appreciate the OpenSuse team doing lots of good stuff, but there are some things a normal user (and by that I mean someone who can't use the CLI to administrate a Linux by hand) can't do, yet would be forced to either immediately or eventually. And yes, of course OpenSuse isn't primarily marketed towards "normies", that doesn't mean all these things wouldn't also be nice for sysadmins to be fixed.
You asked him not me but the biggest issue (for me, that I lived) with openSuSE is that it's not as... smooth of an experience (?), I definitely would say fedora has better polish compared to openSuSE
Same experience here, at least that was the case for me a couple years ago
(Btw, OMG another omega, hello brotha)